Lake Powell from Antelope Point
— blue light pooled inside red sandstone.
Not only on a wall.
“A long arm of Lake Powell pushes into the Navajo Sandstone east of Page, and the marina at Antelope Point sits low against the water. Houseboats line the floating docks; the cliffs above hold the colour the sun has been working all morning. Antelope Canyon opens a few miles back from the shore, the slot canyons that share the name. The lake has dropped here too, and the bathtub ring is part of the view now.
Lake Powell from Antelope Point, on ceramic.
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Antelope Point is one of two main marinas on Lake Powell, sitting at the southern end of the reservoir on the Navajo Nation side of the Arizona–Utah line. The marina opened in 2004 and is run as a tribal enterprise, about seven miles by water from Glen Canyon Dam and the town of Page. Lake Powell was created in 1963 when the dam closed, flooding 186 miles of Glen Canyon. At full pool the lake covers 161,390 acres and reaches a depth of 583 feet at the dam.
The water reads bottle-green in the shallows and deepens to a heavy blue where the canyon arms drop off, set against the iron-red and cream of the Navajo Sandstone. The same sandstone, laid down about 190 million years ago as wind-blown dune fields, forms Antelope Canyon a few miles inland. In the late afternoon the cliffs hold a low orange that the water takes and softens. The contrast is the same one that defines Lake Mead downstream, but here the canyon walls are higher and the blue feels more pressed in.
Antelope Point Marina is reached by AZ-98 from Page and a short spur road onto Navajo Nation land; visitors should bring identification and observe the tribe's posted rules. The marina rents houseboats, kayaks, and powerboats, and a floating restaurant operates on the dock. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which the lake sits inside, charges a per-vehicle entrance fee. Boating conditions are best from April through October; the slot-canyon tours nearby are guided only and book out well in advance during the warm months.